SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

See performance gains by using indexed views in SQL Server Your email has been sent A view is a saved T-SQL query in SQL Server. The view definition is stored by SQL Server so that it can be used as a ...

Analyze database contents using basic, intermediate and advanced SQL statement syntax and usage. Demonstrate capability to query data from multiple tables using SQL JOINS. Create and modify database ...

With SQL Server 2016, it now makes sense to store JSON objects in your database (even though there’s no JSON datatype). Here’s how to query JSON properties to find the rows you want. It’s not unusual ...

Microsoft gave users another reason to download its free SQL Server Reporting Services add-on when it acquired small, privately held ActiveViews. Actually, “small” in this context is something of a ...

Pivotal HD 2.0 deploys Hadoop for enterprise-grade data analytics PaaS, more for Pivotal's benefit than Hadoop's Pivotal, an EMC/VMware spin-off that has big plans to deliver big data analytics ...